Irrigation de-mystified: 'growers like to be on the safe side, risking overwatering their crops'

Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Aug-13 Thu 10:07

https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9240071/irrigation-de-mystified-growers-like-to-be-on-the-safe…

2020-Aug-13 Thu 10:07

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Plants need water and fertilizer to grow. In the hi-tech glasshouse industry, growers apply both at the same time. A fertilizer injection system provides the fertilizer, and the drip irrigation system distributes the water evenly to the plants. How hard can it be? When Godfrey Dol, he is writing the…

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